The Horrific Murder Of Sweet Fanny Adams - August 24th 1867.

[@Tcb0835]

Fanny was my great great grandmother's niece. I'm not sure what that makes my relationship to her, but I still go and visit the grave in Alton every now then.

[@TommyTheCat42]

That would make you a her great great cousin Steve Perry, now please go back and sing with Journey! 😁 I bet you’ve never heard that before

[@calootz9577]

God bless her innocent soul. ❤

[@drylunch6400]

Lovely thing to do Steve! Tragic story! RIP

[@Tcb0835]

😂 I even had someone in the comments section of one video suggesting I was some kind of grifter pretending to be the lead singer of Journey.

[@malicant123]

Second cousin four times removed, I think?

[@incensejunkie7516]

The contrast between the innocence of childhood, the incredibly beautiful setting and a murder most horrific is apparent. Thank you for telling the story of this poor little girl.

[@johnreed8336]

Thank you for remembering the short life ( and tragic death ) of Fanny Adams . These tales from the Victorian era are truly shocking and disturbing . My heart is pained by her parents subsequent constant grief of their daughters murder . In the gilded age of knowing one's station and all the formal manners required of the age makes this even more shocking . All though not directly connected with Jack the Ripper these incidents do give one a broader insight of the time and its terrible crimes that often went unpunished and undetected . I hope you can continue to upload more of these sobering and insightful taled from the era as I am sure I am not alone in saying that I find them quite hauntingly fascinating. Please keep up all your hard work in researching and production of these dark tales .

[@janelancley7323]

I've heard this story before but I'm so glad you've covered it as I've learnt so much more from you. Thank you for giving voice to those long dead.

[@garethparr9482]

Never knew the tragic shocking story behind the saying. Thankyou for bringing it to wider attention. Rest in peace fanny 🙏

[@matthewhumphreys6100]

I have a large library of 18thC to Edwardian murders. I think this is the one that as a modern reader still really moves me.

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

Poor little girl. Thank you for the video.

[@bobbyunavailable]

You told this very well and with due reverence to the deceased. Thank you.

[@Castlebank_Sidings]

Another fascinating story from history and terribly sad. I'm a 57 year old man and that brought tears to my eyes. 😢

[@masudashizue777]

No one has a lick of respect for a child murderer. Children are weak and are unable to protect themselves, so we should protect them always.

[@eviekaley952]

Uh huh

[@jasontuck-smith3896]

What a tragic story. RIP sweet Fanny Adams.

[@tigerlily62]

That was an horrific tragedy! And I thought the Ripper killings were bad. Thank God the perpetrator was brought to justice, although hanging was too good for him! I will remember Sweet Fanny Adams as the innocent child who never got to grow up, rather than a well worn and disrespectful expression..❤

[@Cyprusg21]

"I'll watch a few minutes of this." Now here I am, 41 minutes later. Terrible tragedy but beautifully told.

[@rjcs2000]

Well presented, thank you.

[@Boadicea17]

Sleep peacefully little darling Fanny❤we will never forget you❤

[@Rando_Shyte]

Dear god what a senseless and brutal murder! The dismemberment... 😧😣

[@fredbloggs8072]

That poor child. So sad.

[@phoebearmstrong9804]

Sounds like Fanny did have a sense of something being off because she didn't want to go with him. He watching those kids play the week before shows it was something he had been thinking about before . He's a monster. Poor little Fanny doesn't know it, but the truth is, she was probably instrumental in saving other little girls from this horrible monster.

[@dermotkelly6946]

This is a very sad case if I remember , but will watch tonight, thank you Richard 👍

[@Rando_Shyte]

Well whenever I commit a murder I always casually write it in my personal diary, in case I forget!

[@ianbrailsford5843]

I shall never use that expression again.

[@lamaramariewilson6746]

👌 👍 And I will cringe if I ever hear it used!!!

[@petebennett3733]

Change the meaning of this specific meaning from what it is too, say for instance, something of innocence, vulnerability or something along that that.

[@Milzy1]

My Great Granny was friends with Fanny's sister. They played together. We visit her grave, an awfully sad and tragic part of history.

[@freddyfurrah3789]

The German film M (1931) starring Peter Lorre deals with this subject. It's a film by Fritz Lang, the great German director. Science doesn't know anymore today about it than it did back then.

[@anneloving8405]

Great presentation,I enjoy these when they come up in my yt feed

[@bailey2913]

That’s where the name comes from, I love this sort of stuff it’s priceless little nuggets of knowledge like this that keep me awake till stupid o’clock watching them 😂

[@kevinkenny6975]

Shocking. Very sad but well done Richard for this video

[@malicant123]

If this happened today, it would be a shocking crime, even with the social decay and rising crime of modern Britain. Imagine the impact of this in Victorian times, when the country was homogenous, far more peaceful and less violent. RIP, Fanny.

[@petebennett3733]

There were still crimes, people were still going off to wars, there were still various issues and problems at all levels of society and family related problems. Just look at the various punishments for various crimes. Look at the attitudes of people at the top of society towards those lower down the ladder. As for the last part of your comment "...far more peaceful and less violent" that I hate to break it to you but your looking at it through rose tinted glasses.

[@rhodrage]

If you were to ask me about a peaceful and less violent time in history, I certainly wouldn't say Victorian era Britain...

[@Oakleaf700]

The past was extremely dangerous, and children were abused most dreadfully. It definitely wasn't ''Safer'' back then.

[@rwentfordable]

Do you really think it was safer back then? Crime fluctuates, and it's not even as high now as it was in the 1990s. Really weird reverence of the past.

[@peterburry2531]

You're a racist bigot... Victorian Britain was brutal, particularly towards children.

[@rachelcaullay172]

RIP Fanny Adams❤💐

[@leslierock5005]

Ahh so thats where 'sweet f A' comes from.thank you again mr jones.

[@andreasjohansson2490]

I felt very sorry for Fanny.

[@scariella1314]

Hello from the USA! I love your videos.

[@ceeceecee6138]

Beautifully told.

[@paulastanmoore1413]

Poor little Fanny I had heard briefly of her story but did not realise it happened in Alton, my grandparents lived near to Alton.RIP little angel x

[@adedamolaadeleke6228]

The month goes fast

[@romusromulus]

I always considered the hop knife as ripper's weapon. Easy to explain. Right season.

[@ryanwilson368]

Poor little girl. Awful to think of the events that may have took place around the murder time. She didn’t even know she was in danger bless her. What a monster he was. Glad he came to his end and everyone watched.

[@RogerLareau-qx2cy]

In the TV movie The Night Strangler a sequel to The Night Stalker an unknown killer appears every 21 years.There are 21 years between the 1867 murder and the first Jack The Ripper killing . Real life is stranger than fiction.

[@sammycinnamon7300]

WHY? Why did he do such a thing?😥

[@Legionmint7091]

I’ve read somewhere that the 1874 murder victim Harriet Lane’s name was used in the same way as ‘sweet Fanny Adam’s’. Do you know if there’s any truth in that Mr. Jones?

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Hi, Yes, there were accounts in the 1920s and 1930s that suggested it was referring Harriet Lane, there were also suggestions around this time that Fanny Adams was a married woman who was murdered.!

[@Legionmint7091]

@@JackTheRipperTours Bizarre!

[@MiamiPush2theLimit]

This is terrible. What a horrific thing he did. A cursed creature to do that to a baby 😢😭

[@thomasadrian9854]

The rock band Sweet has a song called “Sweet F A”…. Now I know the backstory

[@uhldi]

Sweet Fanny Adams..from Sweet…great album…! ..including the titelsong Sweet F.A……

[@ruiseartalcorn]

A horrible story indeed! :(:(:(

[@blackratjan]

In those days, so many families were intertwined. I descend from the Baker family, and Frederick was a cousin. Though not related to Fanny Adams directly, I am related by marriage to three of her siblings, and also directly to several of the witnesses at the court appearances. This is history you can touch. A personal link to an horrific event, captured in time.

[@courtneyschramm604]

That poor little girl 😭😭 Hope that monster is burning in hell.

[@AntonyRG1]

I recently watched the film called Adventure in the Hopfields (1954). A far less horrific tale.

[@jenniehudson5742]

There was another little girl attacked in a field not far from guildford, thatbsame year..her name was jane sax.she was stabbed in the throat by a 19 year old lad and later died.poor kid

[@daviddennison09]

Did you notice in the right hand window of the former pub an unusual figure at 17.49

[@eviekaley952]

Apparently Minnie and Lizzie ran back to Mrs Warner's home (Minnie's mother) and they told her about witnessing Baker carrying Fanny away. Mrs Warner assumed they were joking and the girls figured that if Mrs Warner wasnt worried, they shouldnt be. Also the girls knew he was called Frederick Baker and they told Mrs Gardiner when she enquired Fanny's whereabouts they had told her Baker had carried her away.

[@jenniehudson5742]

They had seen him at church a couple of times too

[@AustinD1993]

I have a hard time believing that was the first murder Baker had committed. You dont just murder & chop someone up into 20 pieces one day out of the blue.. it would make more sense that he was a sick person who got to that point gradually. It is sick and poor Fanny never deserved that! Rest in Peace Fanny Adam's

[@bertassellodavide1297]

Fanny 💔

[@audiomurphy]

Spooky

[@alliemaria532]

Poor fanny

[@fatjackjack5416]

Horrific

[@Dark_Nemesis4300]

Frederick Baker was my 1st cousin 5 times removed. I'm not directly related, so far, to Fanny Adams, but her aunt does marry into my extended family as well.

[@adedamolaadeleke6228]

It is wednesday now

[@anthonyjenkins2001]

Should've been busy studying Scripture instead of chopping that baby up 😢. Hopefully God will forgive him on the day of judgment, since he did ask for forgiveness